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'Scottsboro: An American Tragedy' reviewed
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Cleveland Jewish News
03-30-2001
'Scottsboro: An American Tragedy' reviewed
The Academy Award-nominated documentary "Scottsboro: An American Tragedy"
opens with an unseen freight train plying its lone way down a single rural
track. Quickly intercutting that image is file footage of a large, spirited
demonstration with men carrying placards urging "Free the Scottsboro boys."
Thus the two main parts of this searing, feature-length documentary...
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